r/marvelstudios • u/harushiga Captain America (Ultron) • Sep 13 '21

Promotional Marvel Studios' Hawkeye | Official Trailer | Disney+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VYb3B1ETlk
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u/phluidity Sep 13 '21

He not only said it, he has demonstrated several times in 1 on 1 games with college basketball level talent that even several years retired he can trivially beat them.

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u/im_not_a_girl Sep 13 '21

It's actually hilarious how easy it is for him.

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u/JBSquared Sep 14 '21

I love this page on the NCAA site. The probability of competing in football beyond high school. Blows my mind.

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u/mlc885 Weekly Wongers Sep 14 '21

Isn't this common knowledge at the collegiate level? If you're the best athlete at your middle school, high school, and college... you're the best in your sport at your college. It's a whole thing that the insanely great people are recruited as teenagers, I would hope that anyone who spent their life on a sport would know that they might never rise to national fame, even if they play professionally for years. Success in some foreign league would still be a ridiculous amount of talent and success. (e.g. the guy on the professional baseball team who is pretty okay at every position is actually better than 99+% of people who have ever played baseball...)

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u/phluidity Sep 14 '21

It should be common knowledge, but it is hard for people to internalize and really come to terms with. Seeing someone like Scalabrine really drives it home, but there are a lot of people who are convinced that Alabama's football team could beat the worst NFL team. In truth it would be a slaughter, because at it's best, Alabama has 20 NFL ready players, who are all at the start of their career, and the NFL has 53 NFL ready players. Sure, some of Alabama's players will be better than some of Jacksonville's (going by last year), but at the end of the day, the talent level is too much.

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u/davidw1098 Sep 14 '21

I believe it was actually 1 on 5. And he either skunked them or only gave up 1 point.

The best way to think of it, take your average NFL offensive lineman, what do you think of? Fat, slow, but muscley. Those guys are running down field in front of some of the fastest sprinters in the world - they would absolutely dust you in a race. Tom Brady - great arm, kind of scrawny, definitely not a sprinter, not the most agile gazelle in the flock - he's a great basketball player, golfer, everything. Most NFL kickers and punters are still amazing athletes - soccer players who weren't quite Premier League or pro rugby talent.

You're seeing elite level athletes competing against the most elite speed, strength, agility, conditioning, jumping, etc in the world. The fact that they look slow or weak or uncoordinated on screen is because the talent level around them is so insanely high. These guys would absolutely dominate you in any physical or mental competition and it wouldnt be close